I don't see the correlation between those and making new heroes free. Maybe as a way to douse the community flames.
I think it's simply because people want to play the new content. While some will cave and buy a battlepass, it doesn't offset the losses of the grind and paywall that stops people from coming back and investing to begin with.
Comment on Overwatch 2 season 10 will make all new heroes free, Blizzard announces
Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months agoThe actual reason is to hide the fact they’re probably not gonna have much if any pve content soonish. That’s the whole ‘reason’ behind ow2. They just layed off a bunch of staff too.
imecth@fedia.io 7 months ago
Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
It’s a distraction tactic. Blizzard has been doing it for years in wow too.
imecth@fedia.io 7 months ago
Obviously they made the announcement at an opportune moment, but blizz wouldn't be making this change if it didn't coincide with their bottom line.
NekkoDroid@programming.dev 7 months ago
They literally out right said multiple times that PvE content is mostly shelved and to not expect anything.